OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11529

phobia

/ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fobia
An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.
It was when anthropophobia set in, when he was made uneasy by people who walked too close to him, that, sagely viewing his list and seeing how many phobias were now checked, he per…